The cycles of industry and manufacturing continue to evolve over time. Today, there isa certain affinity for the modern yet traditional artisan.

At the turn of the 20th century, the Industrial Revolution was in full swing. The general idea
that resource production was done
in the home had shifted with both
ideas and labor having moved
to off-site manufacturing facilities.

The turn of the 20th century
also bore a counter-shift, one of
renewed interest in arts and the
natural world: Central Park as we
know it opened to the public in

1858; The American Museum of
Natural History opened in 1869,
with London’s following suit in

1881; in 1906 the Bloomsbury
Group formed, united in its philosophical loyalty to and enjoyment
of the aesthetic experience. With
kinship to that philosophy, the Arts
and Crafts Movement progressed
in direct contemporaneity with
the Industrial Revolution; Charlie
Chaplin’s “Modern Times,”
a concerned satire on the encroachment of industry on daily life, was
released in 1936; in the mid-